The sloping ceiling made hanging cabinets above the counter too awkward until Laurie suggested suspending them from stainless steel rods.
Cleats, Gambill explains, are an old-school way of hanging cabinets on walls — two pieces of wood that interlock, one over the other.
This book takes the would-be remodeler through pages of suggestions and then through step-by-step directions for calculating your square-footage needs, hanging cabinets, installing counters, removing old floors and laying new floors.
Some of the designs look a bit mysterious, like the Campanas' Maracatu limited-edition hanging travel cabinet ($51,500), which is made of leather off-cuts from Vuitton's workshops.
And in Trinidad, a former pro-hanging cabinet minister is now himself on trial for murder.
"We spent Easter weekend hanging the cabinets," she said with a laugh.
Down a flight of stairs, past the crowds of young ladies with older gentlemen sucking the bar dry, and you are in the huge windowless Italian restaurant, denoted by bits of wrought iron, faux rustic chandeliers, a huge open kitchen with meat-hanging cabinets, and the bash and clatter of music so loud I feel it in my prostate gland.
Oh, and in case you're interested, you can see Flickr photos of Larry hanging around the cabinet here on Flickr, too.
Haddad's office is a dark but homely room filled with flowers; there are flowers on her desk, atop the filing cabinet, hanging in the corner and strung to the curtains.
